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Artistic director, Albany Pro MusicaTue, 21 Aug 2012 14:54:03 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2By: David Griggs-Janowerhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-541
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:38:54 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-541Where’s “here,” Hugh?
]]>By: Hugh McDevitthttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-540
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:00:40 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-540We have two local radio stations that start broadcasting pop Christmas music (including classic pop like Nat Cole and Bing Crosby) in mid-November. I can only listen to them for short stretches. Our local classical station has been doing more Christmas music this year (both choral and instrumental) than in past years. We often criticize this station because they only play choral music the rest of the year during a two hour “Sacred Concert” program from 7 – 9 AM on Sunday mornings. At least during December we get a lot of great choral music (Chanticleer etc)

I do have to admit to listening to Karen Carpenter all year. I grew up listening to the music of the Carpenters, and I always regretted that I never got a chance to hear them perform before she died.

]]>By: Kimberleyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-528
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:05:25 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-528Christmas pop radio purgatory—Sirius XM Holly! Though it does amuse my family greatly when the song “I Believe in Father Christmas” plays, but there is room on the video display only for the words “I Believe in Fat”! It’s our new favorite Christmas song!
]]>By: David Griggs-Janowerhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-525
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:54:29 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-525Janet – I often watched Classical Showcase while treadmilling, between 8-9 a.m. on channel 3. Maybe you SHOULD organize a protest. It was a great program. Maybe Time Warner can tell you why it’s gone.
]]>By: David Griggs-Janowerhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-524
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:46:45 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-524I love the sentiment, I hate the singing of John and Yono! And that group in the background singing la la – my gosh!

(I’m the last person to mind mixing political messages with anything.)

]]>By: Janet Baxter Peltzhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-523
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:50:23 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-523I don’t know all that much about the ethics of blogging, introducing new topics, etc., so forgive me if I am making a terrible gaffe. While sorting through some old videotapes (remember, those clunky black things the size of a book) and found some that I had taped. And for the umpteenth time I mourned the loss of a feature that not too long ago appeared on Channel 3 and sometimes Channel 16. “Classic Arts Showcase”, funded, I learned, by two California real-estate billionaires, and provided FREE to any tv station that wanted it. There were extremely well-selected clips of everything classical under the sun: opera, recital, dance, symphony, the occasional dramatic excerpt from a movie. The hour that each channel showed it was a delight. What happened to it? It is free, and it costs just as much to transmit the test patterns that replaced it as it does to transmit George London acting the living daylights out of “The Death of Boris” or Rubinstein playing Chopin or Margot Fonteyn in the Black Swan Variation. If anyone organizes a protest, count me in. I see that profanity is not accepted, but I am most fearfully tempted to use it.
]]>By: Mike in Albanyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/christmas-radio/936/comment-page-1/#comment-522
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:30:16 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/griggs-janower/?p=936#comment-522Do you find that your distaste for “Happy Christmas/War Is Over” is because a simple holiday message is tainted with a political agenda? Or is it because Yoko’s voice is so grating?
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